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title: "What is AgentOS?"
sidebarTitle: "Introduction"
description: "The production runtime and control plane for your agentic systems"
---

## Overview

AgentOS is Agno's production-ready runtime that runs entirely within your own infrastructure, ensuring complete data privacy and control of your agentic system.
Agno also provides a beautiful web interface for managing, monitoring, and interacting with your AgentOS, with no data ever being persisted outside of your environment.

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Behind the scenes, AgentOS is a FastAPI app that you can run locally or in your cloud. It is designed to be easy to deploy and scale.
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## Getting Started

Ready to get started with AgentOS? Here's what you need to do:

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  <Card
    title="Create Your First OS"
    icon="plus"
    href="/agent-os/creating-your-first-os"
  >
    Set up a new AgentOS instance from scratch using our templates
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Connect Your AgentOS"
    icon="link"
    href="/agent-os/connecting-your-os"
  >
    Learn how to connect your local development environment to the platform
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Security & Privacy First

AgentOS is designed with enterprise security and data privacy as foundational principles, not afterthoughts.

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  <img
    src="/images/agentos-secure-infra-illustration.png"
    alt="AgentOS Security and Privacy Architecture"
    style={{ borderRadius: "0.5rem" }}
  />
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### Complete Data Ownership

- **Your Infrastructure, Your Data**: AgentOS runs entirely within your cloud environment
- **Zero Data Transmission**: No conversations, logs, or metrics are sent to external services
- **Private by Default**: All processing, storage, and analytics happen locally

To learn more about AgentOS Security, check out the [AgentOS Security](/agent-os/security) page.

## Next Steps

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  <Card
    title="Control Plane"
    icon="desktop"
    href="/agent-os/control-plane"
  >
    Learn how to use the AgentOS control plane to manage and monitor your OSs
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Create Your First OS"
    icon="rocket"
    href="/agent-os/creating-your-first-os"
  >
    Get started by creating your first AgentOS instance
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

